Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (/bərˈkiːnə ˌfɑːsoʊ/ bər-KEE-nə FAH-soh; French: [buʁkina faso]) is a landlocked country in West Africa around 274,200 square kilometres (105,900 sq mi) in size. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north; Niger to the east; Benin to the southeast; Togo and Ghana to the south; and Ivory Coast to the southwest. Its capital is Ouagadougou. In 2014, its population was estimated at just over 17.3 million. Burkina Faso is a francophone country and French is an official language of government and business.(Source: DBpedia)
JIRCAS Report
Adapting to Climate Change through a “Soil-Centered Integrated Approach” — A Review of Food Security in the Sudan Savanna of West Africa —
A review article led by Project Leader ISEKI Kohtaro of JIRCAS (Biological Resources and Post-harvest Division) on food security in the semi-arid regions of West Africa (the Sudan Savanna) has been published in the international journal Plant Production Science of the Crop Science Society of Japan (https://doi.org/10.1080/1343943X.2026.2682196).
This study summarizes the results of over a decade of field experiments and international collaborative research conducted by JIRCAS in partnership with the National Institute for Environment and Agricultural Research (INERA) in Burkina Faso.
AGRA, JICA, and JIRCAS Hold Joint Seminar on Food System Transformation
On August 22, in conjunction with the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9), a special seminar featuring AGRA President Alice Ruhweza, titled “Building Climate-Resilient Agrifood Systems in Africa – the Role of Science and Public-Private Partnership," was held at the TKP Garden City PREMIUM Minato Mirai in Yokohama City.
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Pick Up10. New Coronavirus Pandemic ― Humanitarian and Food Crisis in the Central Sahel: The Case of Burkina Faso
On April 2, 2020, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) expressed strong concern that food insecurity levels in the central Sahel region, encompassing Burkina Faso, Mari and Niger, are “spiralling out of control”. Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries, the 182nd out of 189 countries in the Human Development Index, but due to recent droughts and militant activities, the number of internally displaced persons has increased sharply, health centers nationwide have been closed, and the medical system is weakening. As for food-related issues, there is concern that school closure due to the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will affect children whose only source of nutrition is the school lunch, and movement restrictions would disrupt logistics and prevent external assistance. WFP predicted that by June this year, the number of people facing food security crises could triple, compared to the same period last year, and called on the international community for help.
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Events
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TICAD8 Official Side Event “Managing African Soil for Food Security and Environmental Sustainability” - Opportunities and Challenges of Agronomy to Solve Low Fertility/Nutrient Bottlenecks -Registration period:- (JST)
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Online (Zoom)
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Review of Project Outcomes and Stakeholders' Meeting
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Ougadougou, Burkina Faso
Research Highlights
- Socio-structural factors in the adoption and farmer-to-farmer dissemination of soil conservation technologies(2025)
- Enhancing leguminous crop production in semi-arid regions with low-grade phosphate rock as an affordable fertilizer alternative(2024)
- A simple evaluation method for seedling emergence ability using soil-gypsum mixed crust(2024)
- Unique fertilizer response of sorghum on Plinthosols with thin effective soil depth(2023)
- Boosting cowpea grain yield in Plinthosols through fertilization and high plant density(2023)
- Estimating the impact of climate change on cowpea production in Sudan Savanna using field cultivation data(2023)
- Phosphate rock-enriched compost with rhizosphere soil increases sorghum yield equivalently to chemical fertilizers(2022)
- African phosphorus fertilizer from indigenous low-grade phosphate rock could replace imported phosphorus fertilizer in rain-fed rice cultivation(2021)
- Silage preparation improves feed utilization of sorghum and pearl millet stover(2020)
- The optimum application patterns of phosphate rock direct application under several agroecological zones for rainfed lowland rice cultivation in West Africa(2020)
Article and Publication
2025
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Ikazaki, Kenta , Nagumo, Fujio , Simporé, Saïdou , Iseki, Kohtaro , Barro, Albert (2025) Impact of effective soil depth on agronomic recommendations for sorghum and its economic viability in Africa. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, :1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380768.2025.2522832
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SAWADOGO, Jacques , NAKAMURA, Satoshi , SANON, Sogo Bassirou , NANA, Emilie Mireille Wend-denda , SOMA, Fousseni , NAGUMO, Fujio (2025) Influence de différentes sources de phosphore sur la production du niébé [Vigna unguiculata (L) walp.] et sur les propriétés chimiques du sol au Burkina Faso. Afrique Science, 27 :12-25.